Distribution of murres (Uria spp.) and their prey south of St. George Island in the southeastern Bering Sea during the summers of 2003-2005

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 16-17, 2008, Pages 1827-1836

  Kokubun, Nobuo ^a,b   Iida, Kohji ^a   Mukai, Tohru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Bioacoustic surveys; Distribution; Marine birds; Predator prey interactions; Pribilof Islands

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FOOD PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; OCEAN HABITATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

BERING SEA; BIOACOUSTIC SURVEYS; DISTRIBUTION; FISH ABUNDANCE; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; INTERMEDIATE LAYERS; MARINE BIRDS; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTIONS; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

FISH;

BIOMASS; CANYON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; ISLAND; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY LOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; SAINT GEORGE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; PISCES; URIA;

EID: 52049094809     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.04.018     Document Type: Article

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